Saw this map at a thrift store

Posted by sputnikaquarius

32 Comments

  1. Can’t wait to trespass the border between Nordrhein-Westfalen and Borneo, my next trip.

  2. Was it printed on fabric? I once owned a bit of fabric that looked like this. The intention is to have a repeating map pattern to make sheets, shirts or whatever out of, that’s why they glued parts of the world together in a weird kind of way.

  3. Im not sure but I think this is called transverse projection, it’s like Mercator but the cylindrical projection is transverse or sideways, I don’t think it’s used nowadays but was used a long time ago for polar navigation (airplanes)

  4. your-favorite-simp on

    Not sure but its clearly an Italian map, or rather quite a lot of the place names are written in italian.

  5. Waste-Astronaut-2752 on

    The map triggers me with my OCD. The map intrigues me artiscally.

    The Greenlandia (Dan.) part will trigger a very silly subset of people that are absolutely serious and have power.

  6. That’s just …. wild.

    Maybe it’s from the future when the tectonic plates… erm, no. Not that, either.